Come and Get Your Love!

We were on our way home from Mass today,  listening to yet another 70's compilation CD, and Simon says, "this song reminds me of Church."   Hmmm.  It's the group 'Redbone' performing their song "Come and Get Your Love."  Hmmm.  I'm 100% certain we've never sang that song during a Mass, or any other church-type activity.   

So I asked him, "What do you mean?" and he said.  "I don't know, I can just picture Jesus saying that."  So we talked for a while of his vision for a video of Jesus, arms outstretched, fingers gesturing the viewer in towards him, and belting out, "Come and get your Love...Ohh-ohh, Come and get your Love!"   

I love this image.  The more I listened to the song, the more I saw his point.  I don't know if Lolly Vasquez (who wrote this song) was a Christian man, but he wrote a rather Christian song.  And you can even dance to it!  If you've never heard the song, you need to stop reading this and immediately find it and listen.  Go ahead.  I'll wait.  Got it?  Okay.  

"Nothin's the matter with your head", is really good to know when I'm feeling unloved, or unlovable or terminally confused.  And then, if we're still picturing Jesus singing ME a love song, what better lyrics could I hear from my beloved maker than, "Cause you're fine, and you're mine, and you look so divine!"  I'm melting over here!!  How he loves me!  Can you feel it?  He's got me taken care of.  I'm just fine!  And I'm HIS!  I could only hope that he sees the divinity in me.  He may be the only one who can, since he's the one who put it there.  And He's singing to you, too!  He's inviting you! 

"Come and get your Love!!!!  Come and get your Love!!  Come and get your Love!!!"

Then he goes on to comfort me more, by singing "Don't you feel right?"  Sometimes I don't.  I don't feel right at all.  I've royally messed up and trashed my life out.  I've made other people feel crappy and hurt the people I love most.  I'm feeling mean and short-tempered.  I've taken on more than I can do, AGAIN.   I look for love and acceptance from the wrong directions, when all I needed to do was listen to my Native American (that's right, they are NOT black, surprise!)  friends being the voice of my Savior, singing, "Get it from the main vine, oh yeah!" 

Jesus himself said "I am the vine and you are the branches."  So I guess he's the main vine.  Who better to get my Love from, right?   "If you want some, take some!!  Get it together, Baby!!"

I think this image is going to stick with me for a while.  God bless that Simon.  When I see Jesus on the cross, I will see how he stretched out his arms and invited all of us.  "Come and get your Love!